Pear Mail function not working?

[tiamat2012]

Can anyone take a look at this code and tell me why?

require_once "Mail.php";

$from = "email@email.com";
$to = "email@toemail.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";

$host = "mail.earthlink.net";
$username = "username@earthlink.net";
$password = "password";

$headers = array ('From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>Error: " . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}

It's telling me unable to connect to mail.earthlink.net:25, but I have used this type of thing before from an ASP.NET application, and earthlink sent it fine... can anyone see errors in the code?

-Kerry

P.S. the e-mails, username and password were changed from the valid ones.

 

[jpadie]

some things to consider:

does earthlink authenticate to port 25? some smtp providers require smtp-auth connections on higher ports
does your php host allow outgoing port 25 connections? many don't.
try getting a more verbose error message by using

$mail->getDebugInfo()

instead of getMessage

 

[tiamat2012]

I'm pretty sure that earthlink allows port 25 (i've used ASP.NET functions, and I think they use the same port), but not sure if this hosting provider llows outgoing port 25 connections, I'll send them a a message.

How exactly would I use getDebugInfo()? smtp is my object, but I don't know how I would get it at all.

-Kerry

 

[jpadie]

instead of this

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>Error: " . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}

use

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo("<p>Error: " . $mail->getDebugInfo() . "</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
}

 

[tiamat2012]

Thanks jpadie.


It doesn't display anything.

-Kerry

 

[jpadie]

it may be that pear_mail does not populate this.

can you not use the standard mail() call from php? often your hosts provide access to something like postfix or the like.

 

[tiamat2012]

Because I'm using a free hosting provider, they won't let me use the standard SMTP, so I was trying to use my earthlink accounts one...

-Kerry

 

[jpadie]

so that does rather suggest that they will also have blocked outbound access to port 25!

have a look on earthlink's site, often provider's allow smtp access on a higher port for just these circumstances. in fact, i'd be pretty certain that a provider like them will allow inbound access on port 587 too.

change this

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password));

to

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
array ('host' => $host,
'auth' => true,
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password
'port' => 587));